Imagine Teaching with the 2026 Charlotte Huck and Orbis Pictus Award-Winning Books
2026 NCTE Annual Convention · 21 November 2026 · 08:15–09:30 · 115-A (100 Level)
Imagine Teaching with the 2026 Charlotte Huck and Orbis Pictus Award-Winning Books was a session at 2026 NCTE Annual Convention on 21 November 2026 in Philadelphia, with 26 speakers on record.
Speakers
- Maria Leija — Chair The University of Texas at San Antonio
- Ashanka Kumari — Speaker Associate Professor of English, Rhetoric and Writing, East Texas A&M University
- Taraneh Matloob — Speaker Red Comet Press
- Julie Winterbottom — Speaker Rocky Pond Books/Penguin Random House
- Sara Fajardo — Speaker Lynwood elementary/Macmillan/Roaring Brook
- Arree Chung — Speaker Macmillan
- Juana Martinez-Neal — Speaker Little, Brown and Company
- María Dolores Águila — Speaker Charlotte Huck Award Winner, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group
- Brittany Cicchese — Speaker Orbis Pictus Award Winner, Illustrator
- Megan Clendenan — Speaker Orbis Pictus Award Winner, Charlesbridge
- Lindsay Metcalf — Speaker Author
- Melissa Wells — Speaker University of Mary Washington
- Janelle Mathis — Speaker University of North Texas
- Erin Entrada Kelly — Speaker Sourcebooks
- Lana Button — Speaker
- Kimetrice Tate — Speaker International Prep Academy/Champaign CUSD #4
- Livia Blackburne — Speaker Author
- Carri Wappat Burns — Speaker Nashua School District
- Teri Kanefield — Speaker ABRAMS Books
- Matt Forrest Esenwine — Speaker Beaming Books / Astra Young Readers / POW! Kids Books (publishers)
- Caryl Crowell — Speaker Retired, Tucson Unified School District
- Hiawatha Smith — Speaker University of Wisconsin-River Falls
- Jason J. Griffith — Speaker Penn State University
- Yoo Kyung Sung — Speaker University of New Mexico
- Mohit Mehta — Speaker Texas State University
- Kimberly Kulasekaran — Speaker William E. Carter School/Boston Public Schools